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COLONEL JAMES A. BEAVER; BVT. BRIG. GEN.
O = Officers K = Killed and died of wounds.
M = Men D = Died of disease, accidents, in prison, etc.
T = Total E = Total Enrollment
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Companies O M T O M T E
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Field & Staff - - - 1 - 1 14
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Company A 1 15 16 - 19 20 141
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" B - 14 14 - 30 30 130
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" C 7 28 35 - 11 11 138
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" D - 29 29 2 18 20 148
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" E - 14 14 - 25 25 122
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" F - 17 17 - 13 13 121
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" G - 19 19 - 10 10 117
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" H 2 14 26 - 18 18 141
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" I 1 19 20 - 19 19 132
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" K 1 19 20 - 20 20 135
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Totals 12 198 210 4 183 187 1,339
210 killed == 15.6 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 769; died in Confederate prisons
(previously included), 62.
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BATTLES. K. & BATTLES. K. &
M. W. M. W.
Chancellorsville, Va 48 Petersburg, Va. (assault) 5
Gettysburg, Pa 31 Siege of Petersburg, Va 11
Wilderness, Va 1 Jerusalem Road, Va 5
Po River, Va., May 10 37 Deep Bottom, Va 8
Spotsylvania, Va., May 12 29 Ream's Station, Va 6
Spotsylvania, Va., May 16 1 Hatcher's Run, Va 2
Totopotomoy, Va 2 White Oak Road, Va 7
Cold Harbor, Va 14 Farmville, Va 2
Prison guard, Salisbury, NC 1
Present, also, at Bristoe Station; Mine Run; North Anna;
Strawberry Plains; Sutherland Station;
Appomattox.
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History - Organized at Harrisburg, in September, 1862, seven of the
companies having been recruited in Centre County. At the request of
the line officers, James A. Beaver, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-fifth
Pennsylvania, was appointed Colonel. After three months of service in
Maryland, it joined the Army of the Potomac, and was assigned to Caldwell's
(1st) Brigade, Hancock's (1st) Division, Second Corps; it remained in
this division (First) during its entire service. Its first battle occurred
at Chancellorsville, where it lost 3 killed, 119 wounded, and 14 missing,
Colonel Beaver being among the severely wounded. General Caldwell commanded
the division at Gettysburg, and Colonel Cross (Fifth New Hampshire), the
brigade; the loss of the regiment was 19 killed, 101 wounded, and 5 missing.
It went into winter quarters (1863-4) near Stevensburg, Va., receiving in
the meanwhile 283 conscripts and 120 recruits, a needed accession. It was
prominently engaged at Po River and Spotsylvania, where it lost 33 killed,
235 wounded, and 33 missing; total, 301, the greatest loss of any infantry
regiment at Spotsylvania. Colonel Beaver, while in command of a brigade,
was severely wounded at Petersburg, June 16, 1864. He rejoined his regiment
just as it was entering the fight at Ream's Station, where he was again
wounded, and suffered amputation of a leg. In September, 1864, the War
Department ordered that one regiment in each division be armed with
breech-loading rifles; the One Hundred and Forty-eighth was selected by
General Hancock as the deserving one in its division to be thus armed.
Sources
The information for the above page is from Fox's Regimental Losses.
Web page by Robert E. Ray great grandson of Joseph Ammerman 148th Co "B"
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